passionate
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare ("to be affected with passion"); see passion.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈpæʃənɪt/, /ˈpæʃənət/
passionate
- Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
- Mandy is a passionate lover.
- Fired with intense feeling.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,
- Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,
- (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i], line 544:
- She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii], line 124:
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
- (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid
- French: passionné
- German: leidenschaftlich
- Italian: appassionato
- Portuguese: ardente
- Russian: стра́стный
- Spanish: apasionado
passionate (plural passionates)
- A passionate individual.
passionate (passionates, present participle passionating; simple past and past participle passionated)
- (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], line 6:
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
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